Combined table and settee.



vv. A. DECKER.

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WILLIAM A. DECKER, 0F HASTINGS, NEBRASKA.

COMBINED TABLE .AND SETTEE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 5, 19in.

Application led January 18, 1916. Serial No. 72,821.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. DECKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hastings, in the county of Adams and State of Nebraska, have invented new and useful Improvements in Combined Tables and Settees, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to articles of furniture and has for its object to provide such an article which is convertible from a table to a settee, or vice versa, so that space may be economized and expense reduced.

With the above and other objects in view, the improvement resides in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts set forth in the following specification and falling within the scope of the appended claims.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved article of furniture in the form of a table, Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the table converted into a settee, Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail sectional view approximately on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2, and Fig. a is a vertical longitudinal sectional view approximately on the line i- 4 of Fig. 3.

In carrying out my improvement I provide two spaced side members 1-1 connected by a flat member 2 which provides the seat, when the device is set up as a settee or a shelf when the device is set up as a table. The side members l extend each an equal distance above the member 2 and if desired may embody ornamental posts or legs, which are connected at their upper ends by arms 4-4:. The sides below the arms and between the members comprising the legs are centrally provided with connecting members or plates 5, and each of the members 5 is formed with an alining Y-shaped slot 6. rIhe ends provided by the upper or V-shaped portion of each of the slots 6 are continued outwardly from the slots proper to form the same with horizontally disposed pockets 7 --7 and within either of the mentioned': pockets of the slots is adapted to be received an inturned linger or lug 8 provided upon plates 9 depending centrally from the flat substantially rectangular member l0 that forms the back of the settee or the top of the table. When the members 8 are received within the pockets 7, the member l0 will be eiectively retained in its position when the device is set up as a settee to either of the sides of the frame of the structure, and when the members 8 are received in the central vertical portion of the Y-shaped slots 6, the same will be contacted by the opposite walls provided thereby so that the member 10 cannot move laterally but must first be raised to permit of the pintles being guided in either of the channels or angular portions provided by the said slots.

From the above description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, the simplicity of the device, as well as the advantages thereof will, it is thought, be perfectly apparent to those skilled in the art to which such invention appertains without further detailed description.

I-Iaving thus described the invention, what I claim is:

1. A combined article of furniture including side members having Y-shaped alining slots, and a flat member having spaced side members provided each with an inturned lug adapted to be received in the said slots.

2. A convertible article of furniture as herein described comprising a frame including sides having each a registering substantially V-shaped slot, the ends of the branches of the said slots being continued horizontally to provide pockets, a Hat member adapted to rest on the sides when in one position and against the sides when in another position, said member having spaced plates each provided with a lug and one of the lugs received in each of the slots, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM A. DECKER.

Witnesses:

W. A. MARTIN, G. I-I. SLEUMAER.

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